Ice-cushion



(No Model.)

A. A. STOLL.

ICE "CUSHION.

Patented July 7',.1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

ALBERT A. STOLL, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

ICE-CUSHION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 563,429, dated July 7,1896.

Application filed August 19, 1895. serial No. 559,738. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT A. Mom, a citizen of the United States,residing in Louisville, in the county of Jefferson, State of Kentucky,have invented a new and useful Ice- Cushion, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention retates to a cushion to be used by sick persons sufferingfrom improper temperature; and its object is to replace either the iceor cold water or hot water from time to time while the cushion is inposition without displacing it or disturbing the patient. I attain theseobjects bythe contrivance shown in the accompanying drawings, in which--Figure 1 shows the proposed cushion while in position under the head ofthe patient and upon the ordinary cushion or pillow. Fig. 2 shows theproposed cushion inflated with air or otherwise filled as it appears onthe outside. Fig. 3 shows it in the same position and inside of itpieces of ice, with which it may be filled, and the screw-stoppers withwhich. its ends are closed.

The same letters refer to the same parts in all the views.

The tube is made of vulcanized india-rubber or like water-tight flexiblesubstance, is from sixteen to twenty-six inches in length to accommodateeither children or grown persons, about three inches in diameter in themiddle and tapers off toward the end,

and is shaped somewhat like a bow, when not under pressure. I denote thetube which is the body of the cushion by the letter A, the stoppers madeof a handle anda screw, which runs in a matrix affixed to the flexibletube at each end, by the letters B B, the contents of the cushion whenfilled, as in Fig. 3, by the letter O, and the two thin waste-tubes offlexible material attached to and opening,

preferably, from the convex or under side of the main tube by theletters D D.

The main tube, havingbeen filled with ice, 5 with cold water, or withhot water, according to the needs of the patient, is laid under hishead. The waste-tubes may be allowed to hang down freely or may beturned up or closed by clamps, so as to prevent the outflow.

From time to time, as ice melts, cold water becomes warm, or hot watercools, a stopper on one or other side may be opened and new supplies ofice, of cold Water, or of hot water dropped or poured in, and the wasteproceeding from melted ice or of water losing its proper temperature beallowed to flow out through the waste-tubes, the cushion being thus keptat its proper temperature without raising the patients head.

I call the cushion an ice-cushion, as it will in most cases be filledwith ice, although it is just as applicable to hot water.

The waste-pipes must be made long enough 65 to carry the waste wateraway from the patients bed.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In an ice-cushion, a flexible bow-shaped tube. whereof the mediateportion is adapted to be laid under a persons head while in bed, and theterminal portions to extend upwardly by the sides of the persons head,the upper end of each of said terminal portions being provided with asupply-opening, the cushion being provided also with two thin flexibledischarge-pipes, one on each side of the center of the mediate portionand leading from the underside thereof, substantially as described. 80

ALBERT A. STOLL.

Witnesses:

BELLE APPLEGATE, A. L. DEMBITZ.

